(with Elchanan
Mossel)
Sharp Thresholds for Monotone Non Boolean Functions
and Social Choice Theory.
How quantum computers fail: Quantum codes, correlations in
physical systems, and noise accumulation.
When noise accumulates.
Slides from a related lecture at IQI.
with M. Safra, Threshold phenomena and
influences.
Slides of lectures
Graduate students and post-docs.
My Own Supervisor was
Micha A. Perles (Both for M.Sc and Ph. D).
My host for Post-Doctoral studies was
Richard Stanley
.
Ph. D. Students:
Graduated:
Ron Adin
(with Micha A. Perles),
Ehud Friedgut
,
Isabella Novik
,
Rom Pinchasi
(with Micha A. Perles and (unofficially) Janos Pach),
Hagit Last, Romina Zigdon,
Eyal Beigman,
Eran Nevo,
Nathan Keller ,
Noa Nitzan (with Micha A. Perles),
Moti Novick, Ilan Karpas, Noam Lifshitz (with Guy Kindler), Moshe White.
Currently: Gabriel Gendler,
M. Sc Students:
Graduated:
Oded Schramm
,
Eran London,
Yuri Rabinovich
,
Alex Samorodnitsky
,
Yuval Roichman
,
Isabella Novik,
Moshe Litvin,
Akiva Kadari,
Yoav Kirsch,
Shachar Lovett,
,
Eran Nevo,
Yuval Salant,
Yonathan Samet, Eyal Novinsky,
Ilan Nehama, Moti Novick, Aviv Sheyn, Uri Leder, Yannai Gonczarowski,
Yuval Peled, and Michael Simkin, Moshe White, Ran Adi.
Post-doctorate researchers:
Helena Jorge,
David Garbiner,
Hein van der Holst,
Guy Kindler
,
Mathieu Detour,
Frank Valentin
,
Uli Wagner,
Shakhar Smorodinsky,
Elad Dokow, Mark Kozdoba, Yilun Shang, Karim Adiprasito,
Gonzalo Fiz Pontiveros, Evan DeCorte, Sonia Balagopalan (with Eran Nevo),
Pavel Patak (with Karim Adiprasito),
Zuzana Patakova
(with Karim Adiprasito), Ferdinand Ihringer, Roman Glebov, Reut Levi.
Coauthors and collaborators
Coauthors:
Michael Maschler,
Guillermo Owen,
Noga Alon,
Shmuel Friedland,
Anders Bjorner,
Peter Frankl,
Zoltan Furedi,
Jeff Kahn,
Nati Linial,
Jean Bourgain,
Yitzhak Katznelson,
Daniel Kleitman,
Motty Ricklin,
Larry Stockmayer,
Ehud Friedgut,
Jirka Matousek,
Itai Benjamini,
Oded Schramm,
Branden McKay,
Maya Bar-Hillel,
Dror Bar-Natan,
Gunter Meisinger,
Peter Kleinschmidt,
Roy Meshulam,
Ariel Rubinstein,
Ran Spiegler,
Assaf Naor,
Muli Safra,
Helene Barcelo,
Gunter M. Ziegler,
Amnon Shashua,
Lior Wolf,
Anat Levin,
Elchanan Mossel,
Olle Haggstrom,
Greg Friedman,
Saharon Shelah, Avi Wigderson, Irit Dinur, Noam Nisan, Imre Barany,
Nathan Keller, Moshe Tennelholtz, Uri Feige, Reshef Meir,
Maria Chudnovsky, Eran Nevo, Isabella Novik, Paul Seymour,
Greg Kuperberg,
Guy Kindler, Leonard Schulman, David Ellis, Bhargav Narayanan,
Zuzana Patakova,
Barry Simon, Nir Avni, Jonathan Breuer,
Yosi Rinott, Tomer Shoham
.
Other frequent collaborators:
(definition: Not from the above lists, on more than one occasion we
were seriously working on a project with the potential of leading to a
joint research paper.)
Micha Perles,
Richard Stanley,
Mike Saks,
Lou Billera,
Karanbir Sarkaria,
Yuval Peres,
Alex Lubotzky,
Eric Babson,
Sergiu Hart,
Laci Lovasz,
Francesco Brenti,
Ravi Kannan,
Janos Pach,
Doron Zeilberger,
Motty Perry,
Yishay Mansour,
Michal Feldman,
Aviad Rubinshtein,
Gady Kozma,
Tammy Ziegler,
Karim Adiprasito,
Robert Aumann,
Ron Adin,
Joshua David Paik,
Ferdinand Ihringer.
homepages of some past graduate classes
Assignement for the Course "Combinatorics" SPRING 2013
The assinments.
Fall 2004 - Course at Yale: Boolean functions
Kalle Karu proved the nonnegativity of
toric h-vectors for general polytopes.
The seminar (Fall 2003 HU, with David Kazhdan)
Convex polytopes and Toric Varieties
,
was devoted to studying parts of this proof and related issues.
Spring 2003:
(with Avi Wigderson) Mathematical problems in computer science
Classes 2006/2007
Fall 2006, Yale University:
Topic in discrete mathematics: Mathematical problems arising from
theoretical computer science.
MW 11:30-12:45, AKW 400.
Fall 2005, Yale University - Topic in discrete mathematics:
Convexity and Linear Programming
Fall 2004, Yale University - Topic in discrete mathematics:
Analysis of Boolean function
Spring 2004, Yale University - Topic in discrete mathematics:
Combinaorics.
Past special semesters, Conferences, workshops and season-schools.
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Special Semester in Jerusalem:
Combinatorics of Polytopes and Complexes: Relations with Topology and Algebra
1 March 2007- 31 August 2007
Toric varieties, polytope duality, mirror symmetry
and Kozsul duality day, Sunday, 18 March. Speakers: Tom Braden,
Sasha Zvonkin, Victor Batyrev.
Valuations day: (organizer: Semyon Alesker), Wednesday, April 11, 2007,
speakers: Semyon Alesker, Gil Kalai, Andreas Bernig.
Midrasha
Matematicae:
Spring School in
Jerusalem:
Polytopes, Graphs and Convexity, 6-11 May, 2007.
Back-to-back mini-workshops:
Convexity, Random polytopes,
random complexes, random spaces: (co-organizer: Chris Hoffman)
June 14,15 and 18, 2007.
Combinatorics and Topology: (co-organizer: Rade Zivaljevic)
June, 18 - June 21, 2007
Workshop on Graph Rigidity, Monday, July 9, 10:30. Main speaker, Bob Connelly.
Thursday August 2 2007,
Metric DAY,
Lectures by Henry Cohn and Igor Pak.
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Fall 2004
WORLSHOP ON BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS: Spet 27-29 2004.
Spring School 2003 PROGRAM
Past and Available computer projects
Math problems, Math news, Non-math problems (under construction)
Face numbers and related invariants of polytopes
and complexes
The combinatorics
of the simplex algorithm
Influences, threshold phenomena
and random graphs
Pictures (before 2005).
Top right: lecturing in a discrete geometry meeting
Ascona , 1999 (taken by: Emo Welzl), left: with Mazi, Lior, Neta and Hagai,
Jerusalem 2005,
Below: With Itai Benjamini and Oded Schramm,
Beit Belgia, Dec 2004 (Tselil Schramm).
Below: Listening with Michael Ben-Or and Sergiu Hart to
Elchanan Ben-Porath, 2002 (Yaakov Bergman). Below: the joint class with Avi,
lecture on evasiveness, 2003 (Boas Barak).
Below: right, with Shahar Mozes 2001 (Dror Bar-Natan),
left, 24th CCCC (Cambridge Combinatorics and Coffee Club) 2004,
Below right:
with Yisrael Aumann, 2002 (Yaakov Bergman),
left: with Jirka Matousek, 1999 (Emo Welzl).
